The social genome of friends and schoolmates in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 702-707

  Domingue, Benjamin W ^a   Belsky, Daniel W ^b,c   Fletcher, Jason M ^d   Conley, Dalton ^e   Boardman, Jason D ^f   Harris, Kathleen Mullan ^g,h  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

Author keywords

BMI; Educational attainment; GWAS; Polygenic score; Social genetic effect

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; POLYGENIC SCORE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL GENETIC EFFECT; SOCIAL NETWORK; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; FRIEND; GENOTYPE; HUMAN RELATION; PEER GROUP; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SCHOOL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOBIOLOGY; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; FEMALE; FRIENDS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PEER GROUP; SCHOOLS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOBIOLOGY; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85040861053     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1711803115     Document Type: Article

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